Jenn060306
02-05-2008, 08:08 PM
My name is Jenn, my DH is Mark. I first joined OW in 2005 i think. When i was planning our wedding. My husband and i met in November 1999. High School sweethearts. And married on June 3rd, 2006.
Shortly after our wedding I became very sick. I had sever stomach pains and was hospitalized once before getting confirmation on what was wrong. I had developed ovarian cysts and was faced with the possibility i might loose one or both ovaries since there were large cysts on both. The left was 2cm and the right was 6cm. We spent that summer worrying about the possibilities of having children. On October 5th i had surgery to remove both cysts. Thankfully nothing more! The surgery went ok. But the recovery was miserable. I developed a systemic infection which ment i had to go back to the hospital for a week because i was so sick. Once everything was healed Mark and i decided we could not risk loosing our chance again. So we started TTC November 1st, 2006.
Our journey to getting pregnant with this little blessing had been very hard. We had a hard time understanding what was happening with us and why it was taking so long. We both were under the impression that getting pregnant wasn't that hard since his older sister had very little trouble herself. By May of 2007 i had developed another ovarian cysts. Thankfully this one resolved on it's own. As we slowly approached the one year mark I began to loose all hope that it would ever happen. And gave up hope when my family Dr. sent me for an emergency ultra sound this past fall in fear of an ectopic pregnancy. There was no baby, but there was a blood filled cysts which was leaking and causing me extreme pain. I couldn't sit, stand, lay down or anything without pain. This cyst also went away on it's own thankfully. But with this it caused our Dr. to refer us to an R.E. (reproductive endocrinologist) and start testing me to Polycystic Ovarian Syndrom and send Mark for tests himself. The wait time to see the R.E. was 6 months. Refusing to wait that long i looked into alternative medicine. I began seeing a Naturopath in October.
The Naturopath started me on a Cleanse before starting me on medications to help with my fertility. She asked us to stop TTC for atleast 2 months. So i gave up everything but temping. No OPK's, didn't observe anything. It was great. We went through November which was very difficult. I cried alot. I didn't ever think it would happen for us. I also was in dis-belief that we were on the edge of being considered Infertile.
One Saturday morning. At the end of the 12th cycle i awoke and took my temp. Completely expecting to see my temp take a dive like it would every month just before AF found me. It was still up. Baffled i decided to take a HPT at 14dpo i finally had a big bright positive! I started to cry and shake right away. I woke Mark and told him he had to come see this. I took another 3 tests that morning. It was really happening for us!
So, we are now expecting our first little one on August 3rd.
Wishes do come true!
Shortly after our wedding I became very sick. I had sever stomach pains and was hospitalized once before getting confirmation on what was wrong. I had developed ovarian cysts and was faced with the possibility i might loose one or both ovaries since there were large cysts on both. The left was 2cm and the right was 6cm. We spent that summer worrying about the possibilities of having children. On October 5th i had surgery to remove both cysts. Thankfully nothing more! The surgery went ok. But the recovery was miserable. I developed a systemic infection which ment i had to go back to the hospital for a week because i was so sick. Once everything was healed Mark and i decided we could not risk loosing our chance again. So we started TTC November 1st, 2006.
Our journey to getting pregnant with this little blessing had been very hard. We had a hard time understanding what was happening with us and why it was taking so long. We both were under the impression that getting pregnant wasn't that hard since his older sister had very little trouble herself. By May of 2007 i had developed another ovarian cysts. Thankfully this one resolved on it's own. As we slowly approached the one year mark I began to loose all hope that it would ever happen. And gave up hope when my family Dr. sent me for an emergency ultra sound this past fall in fear of an ectopic pregnancy. There was no baby, but there was a blood filled cysts which was leaking and causing me extreme pain. I couldn't sit, stand, lay down or anything without pain. This cyst also went away on it's own thankfully. But with this it caused our Dr. to refer us to an R.E. (reproductive endocrinologist) and start testing me to Polycystic Ovarian Syndrom and send Mark for tests himself. The wait time to see the R.E. was 6 months. Refusing to wait that long i looked into alternative medicine. I began seeing a Naturopath in October.
The Naturopath started me on a Cleanse before starting me on medications to help with my fertility. She asked us to stop TTC for atleast 2 months. So i gave up everything but temping. No OPK's, didn't observe anything. It was great. We went through November which was very difficult. I cried alot. I didn't ever think it would happen for us. I also was in dis-belief that we were on the edge of being considered Infertile.
One Saturday morning. At the end of the 12th cycle i awoke and took my temp. Completely expecting to see my temp take a dive like it would every month just before AF found me. It was still up. Baffled i decided to take a HPT at 14dpo i finally had a big bright positive! I started to cry and shake right away. I woke Mark and told him he had to come see this. I took another 3 tests that morning. It was really happening for us!
So, we are now expecting our first little one on August 3rd.
Wishes do come true!